Researchers have discovered a new gibbon species in an ancient royal Chinese tomb. It's already extinct.

Thousands of years ago, a gibbon was buried with a member of the Chinese elite. Now these gibbons are gone.

Excavations in an ancient Chinese tomb discovered an unknown species of gibbon.

The bones of the long-extinct variety of gibbon were unearthed in a “grave menagerie” from a 2200-year-old tomb in the ancient capital city of Chang’an.

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Paleontologists identified an extinct gibbon species in an over 2,000-year-old imperial Chinese tomb, raising the question of a human-caused extinction.

To the untrained eye, the ancient gibbon skull may bear a striking resemblance to the heads of the tree-swinging apes we know today.

Ancient pet? It's common to find the remains of exotic animals in ancient Chinese burial sites, but "this is the only gibbon we know of in a site that is so old," Chatterjee said.

British researchers have identified a gibbon found in an ancient Chinese tomb as a never-before seen, now-extinct genus and species.